Part 13

Cordelia surveyed her surroundings. There were clothes scattered all around her room and shoes were spread from her closet to the door where Willow was standing.

"If I didn't know any better I would say a demon ravaged your room."

"Ha, ha very funny. Do you know how long it's been since I've been on a real date? I mean not a date where I end up being pregnant from a demon or anything hellmouthy, but a real date?"

Willow's eyes widened at Cordy's babbling. "You were pregnant from a demon?!"

Cordelia ignored her as she tried on another outfit.

"Cordy you'll look beautiful in anything you wear. By the way, the reason I really came up here was this just arrived for you." Willow held out a box.

Cordelia eagerly grabbed the box and ripped it open. "They're from Steven." She held a sapphire blue dress and a pair of delicate high heels.

"He sent you a dress?"

With a dreamy smile she read the card, 'Cordelia, please accept this gift as my way of saying thanks for accompanying me to my parents charity function.' Isn't he just classy?"

Willow rolled her eyes. She remembered when Cordelia had her crush on Wesley and kept saying how classy he was, too. "I have a pair of earrings and necklace that should be the same blue."

Leaving Cordy mooning over the outfit and wondering what made some people tick Willow went in search of the jewelry. She smiled as she entered her room and saw Angel lying on their bed. Cordy's jewelry can wait she thought.

She knew that Angel was pretending to sleep even though he was watching her every movement. She kicked her heels off and walked further into the room.

Turning her back to the bed but facing the mirror she thought to give him a double view of her as she slowly unbuttoned her top revealing nothing underneath.  Even though he didn't cast a reflection in the mirror she could still feel his eyes on her.

After slowly lowering her shirt down her back and letting it fall carelessly from her fingertips she raised her leg to the stool and lift the edge of her skirt until the top of her thigh highs were revealed.

Slowly drawing first one and then the other down her leg Willow smiled as she heard a soft growl emanating from the bed behind her. Without turning, she lowered the zipper of her skirt and instead of just letting it fall she quirked her lips and bent at the waist as she lowered both skirt and underwear over her hips.

With a louder growl Angel jumped out of bed and reached Willow in two strides. She laughed as she felt his cool hands at her waist as he picked her up and tossed her on the bed. "I'm sorry, Angel.  Did I wake you?"

"You should know better than to tease a vampire."

"I thought it was only teasing if I didn't follow through."

"Ya plan ta follow through, did ya?"

Willow loved it when Angel let his accent slip out. Sometimes he did it on purpose but other times, like now when he was teasing her, he wasn't even aware that he was doing it.

With a smile she flipped them over so she was lying on top of Angel. "I thought about it."

With a smirk, Angel crossed his arms under his head and just watched her. "So, what are ya waitin for?"

"Inspiration."

He just quirked an eyebrow at her and waited.

Willow lowered her head and began nipping at his ear. Moving lower to his neck she gently bit where his pulse point should have been. Surprised, Angel wrapped his fingers into her hair and arched his neck in pleasure and rocked his hips. "Harder."

Willow smiled against his throat. She wasn't research girl for nothing. The forbidden Watcher's Diaries that Giles thought he hid from her and Buffy had been VERY informative.

Biting just hard enough to leave a bruise Willow murmured, "Mine."

Amber eyes looked back at Willow and she softly caressed the ridges. "Mine" she repeated.

Angel looked into Willow's eyes, "You sure?"

Willow tipped her head just enough to give him access to her throat, "Very".

With his fingers still wrapped in her hair, he kissed her just above her pulse point. He slipped his fangs as gently as he could into her soft skin and began to suckle.

Willow closed her eyes and just felt. Buffy never said how erotic the pleasure/pain of his bite was. God, if it was always like this why did Buffy only let him bite her a few times? This could become addicting.

Reluctantly letting go Angel lapped at the wound until there was only a trickle of blood. "Mine."

His fingers caressed her throat and then moved lower. Willow moaned and arched into his touch. God, he could become obsessed with listening to the sounds that she made every time he hit one of her spots.

Looking down at Angel through hooded eyes Willow smiled inwardly when she noticed he was still in grr face. Then all thought left her when Angel growled "Now."

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Cordelia stood in front of the mirror inspecting the dress that Steven had sent her. She thought back over how she had met him and couldn't believe her luck. She had just sat down in her favorite coffee shop when a strikingly handsome man asked to share her table since all others were full.

From the moment Cordelia looked into his eyes she felt like she had known him forever. After a couple hours of talking and laughing he had shyly asked her if she would do him a HUGE favor and be his date to his parent's boring charity event that he was obligated to attend.

A noise behind her brought her out of her thoughts and she turned to see Willow and Angel standing in the doorway.

"You look beautiful, Delia."

Cordy smiled her thanks at Angel and took the earrings that Willow held out to her. "What took you so long? Have a hard time finding them?"

A satisfied smile crossed Willow's lips, "Kinda got distracted."

Cordelia rolled her eyes, "When don't you guys get distracted?"

Willow stuck her tongue at her, "turn around".

When she had turned around Willow slipped the necklace around Cordelia's throat.

"They're beautiful, Willow. Where did you get them? Boyfriend?"

"Nope. They were a present from my parents when I was chosen for the Rhodes scholarship."

"When is Steven picking you up?"

"He's not. He's sending a car and I'm meeting him there. He had to do some boring brown nosing with his parents and told me to meet him there later."

"Makes sense. I remember when I first started dating Jake and he had all those charity and political functions that he had to go to. I would meet him there later so I could bypass the boring brown nosing parts."

"Well we'll let you finish getting ready."

Angel and Willow turned to leave and missed Cordelia slipping on the shoes. As soon as the shoes were on her feet they began to glow and her eye's glazed over.

As Cordelia entered the lobby Fred and Gunn looked up.

"Wow, you look beautiful Cordelia."

"Yeah, I have to agree with Fred you're looking pretty good."

Without even acknowledging them Cordelia opened the front door and walked out into the night.

"Well . . . I see the Princess has returned."

Fred elbowed Gunn in the side, "Be nice. She's probably very nervous and excited and didn't even hear us."

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Doc silently laughed as he watched Astrote adjust the tie on his tuxedo.

"Tell me again, Gwenelda why you couldn't have conjured up the other Prince?"

"I thought you the perfect one to lure the Seer to the pumpkin. Remember get her into the coach by midnight so she is trapped within the pumpkin when it turns."